Manuscripts Image of the Month – a sixteenth-century Book of Hours?
At first glance, it looks like a French Book of Hours made in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century: it is written in humanistic […]
Continue reading »At first glance, it looks like a French Book of Hours made in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century: it is written in humanistic […]
Continue reading »The latter half of the nineteenth century saw a rise in interest in Spiritualism, the belief that the spirits of the dead can, and indeed […]
Continue reading »James McBryde came up to Cambridge in 1893 from Shrewsbury. Whilst at King’s College he joined the circle of friends surrounding the scholar M.R. James […]
Continue reading »In 1894, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American born engineer and inventor of, amongst other things, the first machine gun, completed the construction of a ‘flying […]
Continue reading »The Manuscripts department have just published their Image of the Month for April. It can be viewed on their website here.
Continue reading »The Manuscripts department have just published their Image of the Month for March. It can be found on their webpage.
Continue reading »Strange goings-on and mysterious occurrences have been reported as taking place in the drawing room of Leckhampton House in the university town of Cambridge. Loud rappings […]
Continue reading »Over the last five years the Manuscripts department has been running a retrospective cataloguing project with the aim of creating a comprehensive on-line catalogue for […]
Continue reading »The Manuscripts department have added a new image to their Image of the Month feature. Night Work at Greenwich Observatory, a hand-coloured print by William […]
Continue reading »A particularly prescient manuscript for this year has recently been added to Janus, the online catalogue for Cambridge archives and manuscripts. MS Add. 6185 is […]
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